Wow, I am sorry, I am also laughing, but still I'm sorry. This brings up two of my memories.
First, my sister was away taking graphic design courses. My parents and I pitched in and got her a PowerMac 6100 which at the time was a great machine. One of her classmates convinced her that optimizing the hard drive was essential so she did it. Well, almost did it. It was taking a long time so she decided to power down. This is a fatally bad mood during an optimization and I ended up having to drive 3 hours to rescue it. To add insult to injury I figured I'd be able to scam a meal off of her, but the only thing she had was a loaf of wonderbread.
The second story: Her 6100 was no longer up to snuff. I had a PowerMac 9500 which I still used but I could afford a new machine. I figured I'd donate it to her and install a hidden linux drive so I can work remotely when I visit. Some months later she has a problem with the hard drive. I tell her how to use Norton Utilities. She calls me back and she's ecstatic. Not only did it recover her data she now has an additional 4.3 gigabytes of storage! This puzzles me, something must have gone horribly wrong with Norton to report the wrong disk drive capacity. She's talking away as I have her drag stuff to the new hard drive, check the disk free on both and such. Then it dawns on me. Crap, she found my linux partition and formatted it.